Aichi Prefecture eyes thermal plant premises as quake waste disposal site

A local thermal plant in Aichi will host an incinerator and waste disposal site for debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura  is making final arrangements with Chubu Electric Power Co. for the project.

Omura decided in late February to help disaster-hit areas in northeastern Japan dispose of the massive amounts of debris still piling up, and has asked the local utility serving central Japan about borrowing part of the premises in Hekinan.

The prefecture has opted to build its own facilities as none of the 54 local municipalities have offered to accept such debris when asked.

The roughly 2.08 million square meter Hekinan plant premises include landfill to dispose of ash from coal burned for power generation.

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